The New Pennsylvania Academy of Music

With the projected completion of its new building, the Pennsylvania Academy of Music physical plant will expand five-fold to 63,000 square feet and be equipped to accommodate a student body of up to six hundred musicians.

Designers of the new building are noted architects Philip Johnson and Alan Ritchie, who designed the AT&T Headquarters in New York City, among other significant structures. The exterior of the Academy's new building will feature a glass facade framed with stone colonnades. Its interior will provide spacious and highly functional teaching studios, rehearsal spaces, a reading/listening library and office suites.

Significantly, the new building will include a 367-seat performance hall that will provide superb acoustics for concert, recitals and recording. Acoustical designer Cyril Harris of New York, whose work includes the Kennedy Center and the Metropolitan Opera House, collaborated on a design that will add a world-class concert venue to the facilities available to Academy students and the community.

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